Major Deandra Naveen is the author of “The Sacrifice of Dragonkind.”¹ Her work is quoted in two epigraphs in the Empyrean Series.

Iron Flame

“Many historians choose to ignore the sacrifices made by both humans and dragonkind to establish Navarre under the first wards in favor of praising the spirit of unification, but I would be remiss not to mention the losses suffered, both in terms of the ancestral hatching grounds of each dragon breed and the civilians who did not survive the continent-wide migration that resulted from the opening of Navarre’s borders…or those lost when we closed them.”²

Onyx Storm

“It was not without risk that the first dragons bonded humans, for though they clearly hold the power, their bonded riders made them the one thing they could not tolerate: vulnerable. Many dragons suffered the loss of their bonded riders in the name of self-preservation.”³

1. Iron Flame, ch. 17 ↩︎
2. Iron Flame, ch. 17 ↩︎
3. Onyx Storm, ch. 59 ↩︎